Ruth Höflich: To Feed your Oracle
Ruth Höflich’s latest show, To Feed your Oracle at Linden New Art, started with research on magicians, but she prefers cunning and conjuring to magic.
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Ruth Höflich’s latest show, To Feed your Oracle at Linden New Art, started with research on magicians, but she prefers cunning and conjuring to magic.
As Mona celebrates its 10th anniversary, the gallery is strengthening its connection with Tasmanian locals and harking back to its beginning: a private art collection.
Linda Brescia chats about her C3West initiative Skirts, deciding in the shower to become a feminist artist, dressing-up as both a nude and a nun, and the desire to make ordinary women visible.
The NSW Government has committed $480-$500 million to renew the Powerhouse Museum Ultimo as the centre of a design and fashion hub.
Sally Rees celebrates the witchy magic of female ageing via the figure of the ‘crone’.
Jeweller Blanche Tilden has spent 25 years adorning people with unusual materials—from glass and metal to computer parts and bicycle chains.
Peter Wegner has won the Archibald Prize for portraiture in its centenary year with his Portrait of Guy Warren at 100.
Australian artists with an intellectual disability have for decades been creating important, rigorous and playful art. Historically these artists have been pushed to the periphery—but not any longer.
Running for just two weeks across various locations in greater Walyalup, the Fremantle Biennale: Sanctuary, seeks to invite artists and audiences to engage with the built, natural and historic environment of the region.
To mark the presentation of Nan Goldin’s The ballad of sexual dependency at the Bank Art Museum Moree, Jonno Revanche reflects on the power of the landmark photographic series—and the way the work’s visceral portrayal of subjects that have survived the narratives our culture has imposed on them—has endured.
In her major touring solo exhibition Red Flags, currently at Ararat Gallery TAMA, Wadawurrung artist Kait James takes aim at the ongoing commodification of Indigenous culture. She talks to Jane O’Sullivan about kitschy calendar tea towels, souvenir pennants and why she finds it easier to say harsh truths with a little humour.
Auckland-born and raised artist Lisa Reihana is ever the optimist, creating two new works signifying social cohesion to hang outside two Australian arts venues—Ngununggula, and Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks —just as dark divisions seek to undermine the value of migration and Indigenous sovereignty.
In the paintings of Yugambeh poet and artist Lionel Fogarty, dynamic words spill across the canvas and suggest a new way of reading, writing and approaching poetry in his new solo show, Burraloupoo at Darren Knight Gallery in Sydney.
holemtaet hemia (hold this/ hold this tightly) is a new solo exhibition from Shari O’Dwyer at The Condensery, Toogoolawah, Queensland, that explores the woven memories between generations of South Sea Islanders in the Australian colony.
